Reading for Information
What Can You Learn from the Internet?

Name: _________________________

Use these questions to help gain meaning from a webpage or website.

URL: http://________________________________
Purpose
What are your reasons for visiting this site? What do you hope to find?

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Preview
Look at the page features (title, pictures, captions, graphics, links) to gather ideas about the page or site. What can you learn about this topic from these features?

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Prior Knowledge
Think about your previous experiences and record what you already know about this topic.
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Predict
Use the ideas you have developed from previewing the page and recalling your prior knowledge to predict what you will learn from this page.

I predict I will learn:

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Prepare:
Now write 3 questions that should be answered by this page or site.

1. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Plan
Decide on how you will identify and remember the important information so you will be able to use it later. How do you plan to use it? (graphic organizer, written or oral report, multimedia presentation...)

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